Horizontal-thrust bearing.



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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1a, 191%.

Application filed January 8, 1915. serial No. 1,819.

2 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT Kmosmmr, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Pittsburgh, county of Alle gheny, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horizontal-Thrust Bearings, of which the following is a specification, referones being had to the accompanying drawmg}, forming a part thereof.

y invention relates to bearings and has speclal referenceto such as are adapted to sustain the axial thrust of horizontal shafts.

The housings of thrust bearings of the aforesaid character are in some cases sub jectto a deflection by reason of the fact that they are secured to a stationary base or support at a material distance below or to one side of the axis of the shaft where the resultant thrust is applied to the housing. If the stationary bearing surfaces which cooperate with the thrust collar of the shaft, are fixed relative to the housing as in ordinary thrust bearings, this deflecthe bulk of the load tion results in throwing against that portion of the bearing surface which is near the base or housing support.

One object of in invention is to provide a simple and dura le thrust hearing which shall be particularly adapted for use with horizontal shafts and arranged to avoid the aforesaid objections.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will be set forth hereinafter, and in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood I will now proceed to describe the same in the following 5 ec'ification and then point out the novel eatures thereof in ap ended claims.

Re 'erring to the drawings:

Fi re 1 is a longitudinal elevation with the fidusing shown in section, of a horihontal thrust bearing arranged and constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig- 2' is a transverse sectional elevation taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Detail views of one of the shoes which;

forms a part of the same hearing are shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

The hearing illustrated comprises in general, a shaft 10, to which is secured a thrust collar 11, a housing '12, and two pairs of bearing shoes 13-43 and 14-l4.

The collar is clamped against a shoulder 15 by means of a nut 16, but it may be secured to the shaft in any suitable way.

, bolt is The housing has a hollow base 17 which is ada ted to contain abody of oil or other suitab e lubricating fluid, and a .hollow cylindrical box 13 in which the bearin s oes are supported. A cover 19 is bolts to the housin at one end, the other end of the cylindrical box 18 being1 provided with an opening 20 through whic the shaft 10 extends. The collar 11 is located within the cylindrical box 18 and is only slightly smaller in diameter than the interior of the box so that a narrow annular passage 91 is provided between the outer cy indtical surface of the collar and the adiacent surface of the box. The box is, however, provided with a recess 22 near the top so that the collar is separated from the wall of the box to a greater extent at this point (see Figs. 1 and 2).

Each of the shoes, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, is semi-annular in form and has a sector-shaped bearing surface 23 which is raised above the remainder of the shoe and is about centrally located. In other words, the shoes may be described as having a central sector-shaped bearing section an extensions which have depressed or undercut surfaces that lie adjacent to the annular bearing surface with which the bearing shoes, cofiperate.

The shoes are fitted loosely into the annular spaces 24 and 25 between the collar and the respective ends of the box. The bearing sectors are disposed on laterally opposite sides of the shaft, the line of division between each pair of shoes being vertical. Each shoe is tiltably mounted on an adjustable pivot 26 which in the structure illustrated, has the form of a bolt with a convex spherically curved end which extends through a tuprrd hole in the end wall of the box in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of the shaft. The pivot fixed in any suitable position to which it may be adjusted, by means of .a nut 27. All of the four pivot bolts on which the four shoes are tiltingl-y supported, are in a single horizontal plnncjwhich includes the axis of the shaft and they engage the shoes at points on their backs which are nearly opposite the centers of the bearing surfaces.

The shoes are provided new thci 1' adjacent ends with projections 28 which extend. hetwccn pairs of guide projections or lugs 29 which extend axially from the end of the housing and cover.

said housing and engagin portions of the thrust surface, said shoes aving circularly eurved projections and undercut surfaces extending close to the annular thrust surface and forming a wall adjacent to said surface between the bearing surfaces of the shoes.

10 A thrust bearing cemprising a rotatable member hevin an annular thrust surface, a pair of axis y adjustable, relatively stationary pivots on opposite sides of the axis of the rotatable member, and a. pair If bearing shoes tiltingly mounted on said pimts and having bearing surfaces coiiper- Ming with the annuiar thrust surface on uppusite. sides of theexis.

11. A thrust heerin comprising a rota.- tahle and a stationary earing member, one of said members having a plane thrust surface and the other of said members having a pair of pivots on op osite sides of the axis of the rotatable mem er, and bearing shoes tiltingly mounted on said pivots and having bearing surfaces coiiperating with the plane thrust surface of the one.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of January, 1915, in the presence of two subscribin witnesses.

ALBERT KIN SBURY.

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